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Continued from Chapter 18: Bron-18 | ABCtales “You can have anything on the menu that you fancy, girls.” Ger settled into his seat, though the dark...
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Continued from Chpater 17: Bron-17 | ABCtales Wednesday morning. The sun, still hidden, but beginning to brighten the clouds. The roar of the...
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Picture: Peter Thwaite Continued from Chapter 16: Bron-16 | ABCtales “You be OK?” said the Australian woman in the Notting Hill Secondhand Exchange...
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Continued from Chapter 15: Bron-15 | ABCtales “Oh, and one more thing, Fred. We’ve got a new trainee shunter starting tonight.” “Get away, Phil! Not...
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Continued from Chapter 14: Bron-14 | ABCtales It was six weeks later, three pm; South Greenwich Magistrates' Court was working its way steadily...
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14 of my comments have received 16 Great Feedback votes

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That image is fine - couldn't

Posted on Tue, 30 Sep 2025

That image is fine - couldn't have done better myself. Glad to see you got one of the North Anglesey Coast on a relatively calm day - we don't want to be accused of exaggerating, do we? 

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Posted in Welsh Lessons-4

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Oasis in a troubled land

Posted on Tue, 20 Jan 2026

I once found myself walking past a football ground in Famagusta, North Cyprus. People were streaming in. I stopped and asked the guy at the turnstyle how much it was to go in; about £5, which I didn't have on me. "Oh come in anyway," he said. "...

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Posted in The Beautiful Game

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The world needs more cat

Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026

The world needs more cat stories. It would be a better place. At least, that's what Lulu and Sasha tell me...

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Posted in The Cat Krampus Campus (and Moment who couldn't resist not doing nothing)

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All credit to him for going

Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2026

All credit to him for going back to his roots in Nigeria; many sports people with his sort of money would choose to spend all their time in their luxury London homes.

You take a chance every time you venture onto an African road.  

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Posted in Oluwafemi Olaseni.

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I always say, if you can only

Posted on Fri, 02 Jan 2026

I always say, if you can only keep one part of your body warm, heat your feet. That was the principle behind the old railway foot-warmers, before the days of proper heating in train carriages. Big cans filled with hot water that you could hire at...

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Posted in Cold Feet in Germany

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Biblical

Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2025

"...Priyatelkata and I went there to fetch water in earthenware pots that we carried on our heads, hoping to meet Bob Geldof along the way. Goats grazing at the roadside ran away from us because of the terrible smell..."

It sounds biblical...

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Posted in Nor Any Drop to Drink

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Autumn - my favourite season?

Posted on Thu, 06 Nov 2025

'And soon to go' - You capture the transitoriness of the seasons and life in general so well.

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Posted in Farewell Glows

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Glad to see someone else names their cars

Posted on Sun, 19 Oct 2025

Glad to see someone else names their cars - Fionnuala the Fiat, meet Gertie the VW and Hilda the BMW. 

I spent a night and a day in Strabane, just over the border in the late 1980s. It was...interesting.

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Posted in Shillelagh Shopping

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Running amok

Posted on Tue, 14 Oct 2025

I too have been accused of Wonton behaviour in the food aisle...

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Posted in Want.

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In the best traditions of Victorian hymnists

Posted on Sun, 12 Oct 2025

Written in the best traditions of Victorian hymnists (if that's the right word). Perhaps the style is due for a revival...

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